The Sheringham Independent May 2021
RSPCA Horse Trough North Norfolk u3a Local History Group
Horse troughs and drinking fountains were once a common sight in our cities and towns and many of us will have fond childhood memories of seeing delivery horses in the streets and I particularly remember our local rag and bone man ringing a hand bell as his ‘Hercules’ pulled the cart. We are lucky that we still have in Sheringham a horse trough as an eloquent reminder of these days when our society was reliant on horse-based transport.
There was, in the middle of the nineteenth century, great concern at the suffering of animals caused by the lack of drinking water, particularly for horses which were not uncommonly worked to death, and for cattle which made journeys to metropolitan markets lasting for several days without water. It was written that the sufferings which were endured by parched and wearied animals in the streets were beyond all imagination. Continued on page 4...
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